You are in love | JM

3~Pale

    I woke up in the morning with my hip hurting pretty badly. I was still in the same clothes as last night but in the bed I usually slept in. It was the guest room when Big John was still around but when I kept staying there he called it my room. So I guess it was kind of my room. I must have fallen asleep with JJ and he must have put me in here. I don't remember going to my room last night. But I remembered what he said. "I don't want you to be afraid of me, I would never do that."

I got up after hearing John B's door open and got dressed. Then walked out.

"Yo come check out the damage." John B motioned for me to come. Then on his way out he tapped JJ. "JJ, you been outside?"

"I have polio bro, I can't walk." I shook my head. Following John B outside.

"Oh shit." There were broken branches everywhere.

"That's not good." John B yawned.

"Agatha did some work, huh?" I heard JJ behind me.

"I thought you had polio." I told him and he shrugged, already holding a beer bottle in his hand.

    "The cure."

"What you thinking?" JJ asked John B who was pulling branches off of the HMS pogue.

"I'm thinkin' that storm surge pushed all the crabs out on the marsh maze. All those drum are gonna chase the crab."

    I spoke up. "But what about DCS? Aren't they supposed to come today?" He shook his head.

    "No they aren't getting on a ferry." He replied then turned to us. "Think about it, it's god telling us to fish."

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    I was laying on the bow of the boat as the boys talked all kinds of nonsense. We were headed to pick up Pope and Kie.

    "Hi Miss Amy, you guys get through it?" John B asked as he drove by.

    "Still here." She responded and I heard JJ say.

    "She totally looked at me."

    "I saw it." John B replied and I looked back at them.

    "I see delusion." There was all little pink on my cheekbone still from last night. But John B hadn't said anything. My hip was straight up bruised, from him kicking me with steel toe boots on.

    "We're gonna be cleaning this all summer." JJ complained and that was probably true. When things like this happened, the Kooks just hire a Pogue to clean up.

    "Well look who we have here." JJ spoke as we pulled up to the Hayward's.

"We have a safety meeting. Attendance mandatory." John B spoke like he was talking on a radio.

"I can't, pops got me on lockdown." Pope said standing on the dock as we approached.

"Your dad's a pussy, over." JJ copied what John B did.

"Oh I heard that you little bastard." Hayward approached us. "Good morning AJ." He spoke to me.

"Good morning." I spoke softly back, he liked me. Probably because I was the second most likely to stay out of trouble. His own son being the first.

"We need your son." John B tried to coax.

"Yeah, and island rules. Day after a hurricane's a free day." JJ tried to convince.

"Who made that up?"

"Uh...the pentagon I think. We have security clearance. I have a card." JJ pulled words directly out of his ass. Then Pope jumped onto the boat.